Anna-Louise Plowman

Anna-Louise Plowman (born 9 May 1972) is a New Zealand-born actress.

Anna-Louise Plowman
Plowman in 2005
Born	(1972-05-09) 9 May 1972 (age 52) Napier, New Zealand
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1995–present
Spouse	Toby Stephens ​ (m. 2001)​
Children	3

Early life and education

Plowman was born in New Zealand to British parents. She attended Samuel Marsden Collegiate School, Wellington, between 1982 and 1989, and then the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and the Lecoq School in Paris.^[1]

Career

She played consultant anaesthetist Annalese Carson in Holby City and Sarah Gardner/Osiris in Stargate SG-1. In 2003 she played Melinda MacLean, wife of British communist spy Donald Maclean, and mistress of spy Kim Philby (played by her husband Toby Stephens), in the TV mini-series Cambridge Spies.

She played Diana Goddard in the Doctor Who story "Dalek" in 2005. Plowman also played the role of "C" in a revival of Edward Albee's play, Three Tall Women, in 2006, at the Oxford Playhouse.

Plowman and Stephens performed together as Sibyl and Elyot in Jonathan Kent's revival of Private Lives for the 2012 Chichester Festival,^[2] reprised at the Gielgud Theatre in 2013.^[3][4]

From 2016 to 2017, she played chamber maid Mrs Hudson in the series Black Sails, which also starred Toby Stephens.

Personal life

Plowman married actor Toby Stephens, son of the late actors Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens, in London, in 2001. In May 2007, Plowman and Stephens had their first child, a son named Eli Alistair.^[5] British playwright Simon Gray, who wrote Japes, a stage play, and Missing Dates, a radio drama, both of which starred Stephens, was Eli's godfather.^[6][7] Their daughters, Tallulah and Kura, were born in May 2009^[8] and in September 2010, respectively.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	FairyTale: A True Story	Shellycoat[9]
2000	The Adulterer	Gabriella
2000	Flick	Pop's woman
2000–2004	Stargate SG-1	Dr. Sarah Gardner / Osiris	Episodes: The Curse, Summit, Last Stand, Revelations, Chimera
2002	Ultimate Force	Marisol	episode: Just a target
2003	The Foreigner	Meredith Van Aken
2003	Shanghai Knights	Debutante
2003	Cambridge Spies	Melinda Maclean	TV miniseries
2004	He Knew He Was Right	Caroline Spalding	TV miniseries
2004	My Life in Film	Charlie	Episode: "Top Gun"
2005	Doctor Who	Diana Goddard	Dalek
2005	Days of Darkness	Lisa	TV movie
2006	These Foolish Things	Aggie
2006	Agatha Christie's Marple	Helen Marsden	Sleeping Murder
2006	Ultimate Force	Braun	episode: slow bomb
2008–2010, 2012[10]	Holby City	Dr. Annalese Carson-Spence
2010	New Tricks	Alison Levene	Fashion Victim
2012	Six Bullets	Monica Fayden
2015	Father Brown	Rebecca Himelbaum[11]	The Judgment of Man
2015	The Eichmann Show	Jane Hurwitz
2016	Billionaire Ransom	Emily Tilton Scofield
2016–2017	Black Sails	Mrs. Hudson
2019	The Witcher	Zola